L’Oreal Professionnel AirLight Pro Review: Faster, Lighter, and Repairable

AirLight is compatible with iOS 13.0 and supra (including iPads), Android 8.0 Oreo and above, and Bluetooth 5.0. It offers 12 presets tailored for 4 antithetic modes: Standard, Sleek, Curly, and Coily. Each preset is adjustable and tin beryllium saved for aboriginal use, truthful erstwhile you fastener successful your settings, they’re ever ready. There’s besides a afloat customizable mode. Another teeny but invited diagnostic is the app’s usage tracker, which logs however agelong you’ve utilized the dryer. It sounds trivial, but knowing erstwhile to cleanable the filter tin widen the product’s lifespan (more connected this later).

The app is intelligibly successful its aboriginal stages, but it works good and leaves plentifulness of country for updates. I can’t assistance but ideate however overmuch amended it could beryllium with features similar heat-styling tips from pros, speedy video tutorials, oregon adjacent curated inspiration boards for antithetic hairstyles. L’Oréal has laid the groundwork here, and I’m funny to spot however they physique connected it successful the future.

In an manufacture wherever galore gadgets are destined for the landfill, the AirLight Pro is an outlier. L’Oréal claims the AirLight Pro motor is built for the agelong haul, with a lifespan that tin widen up to 10 years of professional-level use—that’s astir 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. For anyone who’s dealt with inexpensive hairsbreadth dryers that hardly past a season, this unsocial is simply a promising proposition.

What truly sets the AirLight Pro apart, though, is its repairability. L’Oréal is making spare parts disposable starting successful aboriginal 2025. The AirLight Pro besides has built-in filter cleaning alerts for erstwhile cleaning is required. The frequence varies depending connected aerial quality, mundane dust, and different particles (i.e., hairspray). If the filter reaches captious condition, the dryer shuts disconnected until you cleanable it to debar centrifugal damage. I haven’t deed that constituent yet, truthful I can’t vouch for however good it works, but I admit the thought of a blow-dryer looking retired for its longevity.

At $475, the AirLight Pro isn’t cheap. But it's lone $45 much than the viral Dyson SuperSonic and has a batch of advantages—it's quieter than the Dyson, faster astatine drying my hair, and much customizable with the app. And astir important, you tin repair it if it gets busted aft the warranty runs out. If I'm going to walk astir $500 connected a hairsbreadth dryer, I privation to marque definite I'm lone doing it once. The AirLight Pro's tailored acquisition is worthy it.